I have never found my Grandfather's ship records entering this country. Some of the Ellis Island ship records have been lost to time and others were lost in a warehouse fire. But in my years of searching I found many people from Montalto Uffugo who came to America. As I found these records of immigrants from Montalto Uffugo I wondered about them. I wondered if they were friends or relations of my Grandfather. I wondered who they left behind and why they left. Some had familiar names, others did not. As I searched for my Grandfather's records, I found other people's Grandfathers. My curiousity led me to document immigration records of other people from Montalto Uffugo. My original reason for looking up other surnames from Montalto Uffugo was the hope that through their ship manifest I would find my Grandfather's name. As I found names linked to my family I wondered if they were his cousins. I began comparing birth records to the immigration records. I did find that some of these people were my Grandfather's cousins. I spend hundreds of hours on this. I feel I must share it here. Between 1880 and 1920 more than 4 million Italians has immigrated to the United States. That represented more than 10 percent of the population of Italy at the time. Two out of every three people who left Italy went to South America.
Although Montalto Uffugo was not affected as dramatically as many other villages in Italy by the mass immigration, as you will see here, they did lose a number of citizens to other countries.
A Note About This Page
I wil l attempt to list here the immigration information I have come across in my research. The people on these pages listed themselves with former residences in Montalto Uffugo. This is not a complete compilation of all former Montalto Uffugo citizens. Some of the people have more than 1 ship record. It was common for them to go back and forth. I will start with the basic information listed on the ship manifests. I will list the ship name and date of arrival in New York and underneath will be the names and ages of passengers from Montalto Uffugo. I have been able to match some of the immigrants with their State Cival birth records and will list them here also with their parent's names. All ships departed from Naples unless otherwise indicated. At this time, these records are in no order. Please note you can click on any pictute on this site and see a larger version of the same picture. If you want to see detail of the manifests I have added here, just click on them.
SHIP RECORDS
Phoenicia
May 3, 1902
Pietro Arturi, age 19
Francesco LoFeudo, age 30
Francesco Ventura, age 31
Europa
March 26, 1914
Angelo Arturi, age 23
Francesco Calomino, age 34
Luigi Cesario, age 34
Michele Maida, age 21
Piemonte
May 6, 1906
Pietro Pesce, age 25
Francesco Arturi, age 38
Vincenzo Arturi, age 30
Angelo Saullo, age 23
Santo Saullo, age 28
Francesco Salerno, age 31
Giuseppe Napolitano, age 25
Giuseppe Saullo, age 28
Maria Leone, age 30
Giuseppe Di Cesare age 34
Rosa Perchia, age 26
Lecoche Zinibado, age 24
Antonio Lalo, age 18
Giuseppe Aiello, age 42
Emilia Aiello, age 33
Francesco Aiello, age 15
Ferdinando Aiello, age 12
Clorindo Aiello, age 11
Gasparo Aiello, age 6
Assunta Aiello, age 10
Emilia Aiello, age 4
Pietro Pesce was the son of Pasquale Pesce and Carolina Arturi. He married Maria Rosa Napolitano in 1902. She is the daughter of Ignazio and Eugenia Fullone.
Ems
July 19, 1900
(departed from Genoa)
Giovanni Morelli, age 16
Vincenzo Arturi, age 26
Michele DeBuono, age 26
Luisiana
June 28, 1913
Pietro Sannuto, age 17
Raffaele Filippello, age 41
Gaetano Garrafa, age 34
Gaetano Garrafa is the son of Saverio Garrafa and Giuseppina Seifano
Oceania
May 13, 1912
Salvatore DeFrancisco, age 30
Francesco Gaetano Aiello, age 26
Enrico Aiello, age 17
Oceania
May 3, 1910
Giuseppe Marciano, age 17
Luigi Martino, age 35
Michele Ruffolo, age 37
Giuseppe DeLuca, age 30
Rocco Napolitano, age 17
Vincenzo LoFeudo, age 29
Luigi Porro, age 37
Michele Mele, age 36
Carmen Aloe, age 16
Rocco Napolitano is my grandfather's first cousin on both his mother's and his father's side. Rocco's parents were Aguila Arturi and Enrico Napolitano.
Citta Di Milano
March 1, 1903
Giuseppe Napolitano, age 22
Eugenio Napolitano, age 25
Luigi Trotta, age 31
Brothers, Giuseppe and Eugenio are the children of Angelo Napolitano and Aguilina Napolitano. Eugenio may have returned to Italy while Giuseppe went on to live in Chicago and become a U.S. citizen.
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Stampalia
October 26, 1912
Maria Concetta Garrafa Napolitano, age 27
Angiolino Napolitano, age 1
Aguilina Napolitano, age 3
Pietro Folino, age 19
(Maria Concetta and the Napolitano children are the family of Giuseppe Napolitano on the Citta Di Milano above). Their final destination is listed as Chicago while Pietro Folino is going to New York. Pietro is a cousin.
Cedric
February 11, 1907
Francesco Lo Feudo, age 35
Giuseppe Napolitano, age 27
Antonio Napolitano, age 20
Yes, this is the same Giuseppe Napolitano
Antonio Napolitano is the son of Ignazio Napolitano and
Eugenia Fullone
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Duca degli Abruzzi
June 21, 1910
Giuseppe Napolitano, age 30
Florindo Napolitano, age 23
Yes, it is the same Giuseppe again, this time with his brother Florindo Fiore who only used his middle name
This was Giuseppe's final voyage. He is a second cousin of my grandfather.
The Philadelphia
July 5, 1920
Erminio DeSeta, age 27
Giuseppe Capano, age 25
The Caronia
October 16, 1920
Sailing from Cherbourg, France
Francesco Rizzo, age 13
Francesco DeSeta, age 25
The Taormina
July 2, 1913
Fiore Garrafa, age 33
Fiore is going to see his brother in law in Harrison, New Jersey
Lombardia
April 2, 1909
Luigi Garrafa, age 33
Luigi Salerno, age 26
An interesting note, Luigi Garrafa is going to see his wife, Maria Zingone. Normally it is the wife who joins the husband later. Luigi Garrafa is the son of Pietro Garrafa and Luisa Napolitano.
Also on this ship are a number of people from Paola
Giuseppe Verdi
April 3, 1920
Vincenzo Cesario, age 75
Rosina Aiello, age 32
Francesco Aiello, age 9
Caterina Aiello, age 7
Rocco Saullo, age 31
The Guglielmo Peirce
February 17, 1921
Carmine Cribari, age 33
Luigi Arturi, age 28
Hamberg
June 24, 1913
Alberto D'Allessandro, age 23
Nord America
July 25, 1907
Angoila Folino, age 29
Ernieri Folino Napolitano, age 7
Assunta Napolitano, age 5
This is the family of another Giuseppe Napolitano - they are leaving to join him. Ernieri's name on his birth record is Emilio. Often when leaving Italy with their mothers, children's names are listed under their mother's maiden names. Giuseppe is the son of Ignazio & Eugenia Fullone.
Nord America
March 25, 1902
Salvatore Riso, age 21
Salvatore born in 1881 was the son of Vincenzo Riso and Letizia Napolitano - the first cousin of my grandfather. He was going to 197 West ? Street in New York
For a complete spreadsheet of all immigrants who entered Ellis Island from Montalto Uffugo click here.
The immigration records of South America are not as complte as those to the United States.
Calabrian Genealogy:Montalto Uffugo
